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Flint on a Bright Stone: A Revolution of Precision and Restraint in American, Russian, and German Modernism - Verbal Art: Studies in Poetics Kirsten Blythe Painter
Flint on a Bright Stone: A Revolution of Precision and Restraint in American, Russian, and German Modernism - Verbal Art: Studies in Poetics
Kirsten Blythe Painter
Flint on a Bright Stone closes a significant gap in the history of Modernist poetry by identifying the existence of "Tempered Modernism," an international phenomenon exemplified by Akhmatova, Rilke, H. D., and Williams, and characterized by small poems written with precision, restraint, simplicity, equilibrium, and hardness.
320 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 20, 2005 |
| ISBN13 | 9780804750752 |
| Publishers | Stanford University Press |
| Pages | 328 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 24 mm · 585 g |